ARTHUR KOESTLER
At the time, Palestine was technically Turkish territory. Turkey was one of the defeated axis powers in World War I. England, as part of the World War I peace treaties, had control over Palestine as well as most of the rest of the Middle East.
Koestler, a Hungarian Jew, lived and worked in England for most of his life. He was not only a great writer, but was an amateur scientist. He like most good scientists understand that no scientific truth holds up very long. We are always finding larger and more nuanced truths. The scientists everlasting contribution is her way of thinking and organizing and deduction which are applied to old truths to show that they are not quite right and there are always newer truths that can be found.
He was opposed to the use of illicit drugs when most writers claimed that drug taking opened new vistas. Koestler, a Hungarian Jew, lived and worked in England for most of his life. He was not only a great writer, but was an amateur scientist.
Arthur Koestler, CBE was a Hungarian British author, journalist and jewish intellectual. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany, but he resigned in 1938 because Stalinism disillusioned him.
